A guide to making a front cover in Photoshop (A2)

http://www.5min.com/Video/How-to-Design-a-Magazine-Front-Cover-in-Photoshop-250262728

A useful blog relating to the magazine front cover (A2)

http://whedley.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/making-the-film-poster/

This isn't a perfect cover, but it gives you a few useful pointers.

Analysing a film poster (A2)

http://asanda2filmstudies.blogspot.com/2007/12/analysing-film-posters.html

http://www.mediaknowall.com/gcse/bbustermovies/movies.php?pageID=posters

http://www.ehow.com/how_4914041_analyze-film-poster.html

ü  What is the genre of the poster?  (What signifies the genre to you?)

ü  What does the title of the film mean to you?  (Does it connote anything?  Is an enigma – a question – created by the title?  Where is the title positioned?

ü  What other text appears and where is it positioned?

ü  What type of lettering is used?  (font style, sizes, colours, effects, borders/shadows etc.)

ü  What does the lettering style signify or represent?

ü  What is the key image in the poster?  What representation does this image give?  What can you see in the foreground and background (give reasons for this).

ü  Are there any secondary images?  If so, what do they represent?

ü  If there are characters in the poster, describe them (in detail) and what they represent.

ü  If there are significant objects in the poster, describe them and what they represent.

ü  Does the poster have a theme, idea, message or value that it is trying to communicate to you?

ü  Is there a tagline?  What is it and what does it represent?

ü  Are the stars of the film identified?  If so, how?

ü  Is the director of the film identified?  If so, how?

ü  Can you identify the producers (studio) and/or distributors of the film?

ü  Is the poster a teaser (advance) or the general release poster?  How do you know?

ü  What release information are we given?

ü  Does the poster offer ways to find out more about the film?

ü  Who do you think the poster is trying to appeal to?

ü  In your view, how successful would your chosen poster be in appealing to its target audience?